Wasuthon has lived in Denmark since 2018 – Photo: Michael Svenningsen

 

by Lasse Sandholdt

 

Ten-year-old Wasuthon Nielsen also called “Guide” came to Denmark from Thailand three years ago after his adoptive mother brought him with her to her Danish hometown of Taulov, where she lives with her Danish husband. Now the Danish authorities have decided to deport Wasuthon back to Thailand, Fredericia Dagblad writes.

 

Wasuthon came from Thailand where he lived with his aunt and grandparents. When his aunt, Praphatsanun Nielsen, married her Danish husband Niels Jørgen Fries Nielsen she moved to Denmark. At first, Parphatsanun went to Denmark without Guide who then stayed with his grandparents. Niels first wanted to see if Parphatsanun liked the life in Denmark before they brought Guide, he explains.

 

Parphatsanun quickly found a cleaning job in Denmark and settled in. She then went back to Thailand and got an official adoption for Guide approved before she brought him back to Denmark with her.

 

Full story: https://scandasia.com/wasuthon-is-being-deported-back-to-thailand-by-danish-authorities/

 

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The word 'deported' to me suggests a punishment. From reading the article it looks like they just got their application denied.

I wasn't 'deported' from Australia when my residency application failed. I simply had to leave by a set deadline date.

Won’t happen 

1 hour ago, JoePai said:

No loss

I think he was using humour

There is enough seriousness without having posters put their depressing opinions

 

1 hour ago, 2long said:

The word 'deported' to me suggests a punishment. From reading the article it looks like they just got their application denied.

I wasn't 'deported' from Australia when my residency application failed. I simply had to leave by a set deadline date.

Same here in Thailand, at some point the Thais are going to change the rules again and a few (if not most) will find their stay terminated. Not a nice thought but (after 7 years here) I think a real possibility. Not deported just told the stay will no longer be extended.

1 hour ago, cyril sneer said:

Won’t happen 

I hope the family has the means to tie this up in the courts until the boy is grown. To our Danish members is this being widely reported in your home country? 

Basicly not a nice thing to do of Denmark, deport a kid with a regular mom (adoption mum), thai mum maried to a danish man, hope this is a paperwork fail from the danish authorities.

 

I am thinking, could I bring with an adopted son to Thailand, get him a permanent residence because I am maried to a thai woman ? In Denmark you get a permanent residence as a thai, if you get maried to a dane, after a lot of difficult paperwork and rules, but possible and it should be possible to take with regulary kids. Can a forreigner in LOS get permanent residence in LOS because of mariage to a thai - we know the answer.

6 minutes ago, pegman said:

 To our Danish members is this being widely reported in your home country? 

No 

 

1 hour ago, 2long said:

I simply had to leave by a set deadline date.

Otherwise you would have stayed there 2long.

31 minutes ago, finnsk said:

Basicly not a nice thing to do of Denmark, deport a kid with a regular mom (adoption mum), thai mum maried to a danish man, hope this is a paperwork fail from the danish authorities.

 

I am thinking, could I bring with an adopted son to Thailand, get him a permanent residence because I am maried to a thai woman ? In Denmark you get a permanent residence as a thai, if you get maried to a dane, after a lot of difficult paperwork and rules, but possible and it should be possible to take with regulary kids. Can a forreigner in LOS get permanent residence in LOS because of mariage to a thai - we know the answer.

Yes, I know several. Not easy but certainly possible. A child is easier.

I would like to believe that Denmark has one of the strictest rules regarding refugees and immigrants in the world. Even when it comes to family reunification, Denmark is tough. I would almost guarantee that 90% of the Danish population are happy with that. 

 

Those they have taken in now from Afghanistan were some who had worked for Denmark in some way while they were in Afghanistan.

1 hour ago, pegman said:

I hope the family has the means to tie this up in the courts until the boy is grown. To our Danish members is this being widely reported in your home country? 

Yes it is.

 

I don't think drenddy reads Danish news and I don't think he is Danish since most people are not like he suggest, but the government and the bureaucracy is.

So plenty on here think the Danish authorities should make exceptions even when this boy does not meet the criteria?

 

They should ignore the rules and allow him special treatment?

 

Just like the Thai authorities do for us Europeans, eh?

1 hour ago, pegman said:

I hope the family has the means to tie this up in the courts until the boy is grown. To our Danish members is this being widely reported in your home country? 

One of the most read newspapers has brought several articles from this case.

 

This one from today. 

 

https://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/samfund/styrelse-advarede-tiaarig-om-straf-for-fravaer-men-meldte-ikke-selv-afbud/8843544

 

As I understand, they have not decided yet to send him home, but he has been summoned to another meeting. 

 

The same newspaper has brought many articles the last couple of years about people being deported. 

 

Some of the articles stirred up things and government changing certain rules, but we still have a strict immigration law..

 

It's seriously not easy for someone to find a wife or husband abroad and return to Denmark with the family. 

 

The rules are sadly there for a reason and I think most know why.... 

 

This kid should be allowed to stay in Denmark instead of all those immigrants/wellfare refugees that has problems adapting to European culture, and which cause a lot of problems in Denmark. 

 

The statistics from Danish prisons, crime rates and unemployment rates shows a very clear picture, but that is not politically correct to talk about. 

 

 

Wow, the sanctimonious  quaker  members are out in force today.

3 hours ago, 2long said:

The word 'deported' to me suggests a punishment. From reading the article it looks like they just got their application denied.

I wasn't 'deported' from Australia when my residency application failed. I simply had to leave by a set deadline date.

You obviously agreed to leave, this boy's parents are fighting the decision and, if he is forced to leave, that will be deportation.

I always hate to see innocent people getting caught-up in the wheels of bureaucratic BS.

34 minutes ago, Scouse123 said:

So plenty on here think the Danish authorities should make exceptions even when this boy does not meet the criteria?

 

They should ignore the rules and allow him special treatment?

 

Just like the Thai authorities do for us Europeans, eh?

The thing is, it's not the Thai authorities who are arguing against Denmark's decision.

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Parphatsanun quickly found a cleaning job in Denmar

The glamours of moving to Europe... the roads are paved with toilet roll and spit not gold lol.

 

Aside from that, feel bad for the little kid, but kinda wished the UK did similar ! 

2 hours ago, drenddy said:

2 hours ago, pegman said:

 To our Danish members is this being widely reported in your home country? 

No 

Yes.

27 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

You obviously agreed to leave, this boy's parents are fighting the decision and, if he is forced to leave, that will be deportation.

Well, they're not his parents, but my point is only that the headline suggests deportation which I read as 'kept in custody until taken to the airport, asap.' Whereas it appears he has just had his application denied. To ME, this is not being deported until/unless the deadline has passed and the poor lad is in custody await his plane.

53 minutes ago, Scouse123 said:

Just like the Thai authorities do for us Europeans, eh?

What do you mean?  Europeans applying for residency in Thailand are granted it if they meet Thailand's requirements aren't they?  I disagree with Denmark's decision but all they are asking is that immigrants meet their requirements.  Just as Thailand does.

The Danish immigration authorities have the opinion that if an ethnic Dane falls in love with someone from outside EU, then he or she can live with the loved one in the loved one's home country - unfortunately the opinion is different when migrants, or economic refugees, wish to have their family brought to Denmark.

 

The are a number of Danes living with their family in Thailand due to this, simply because it either too difficult to get the family to Denmark, or simply impossible.

 

Even that many complains about it's difficult to stay in Thailand - financial demands, 90-day reports, and annual paperwork when applying for extension of stay - it's in fact more easy for some Danes to stay in Thailand, than getting their loved ones, or family, to Denmark.

 

Sad but true...

4 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

I disagree with Denmark's decision but all they are asking is that immigrants meet their requirements.  Just as Thailand does.

Not really, Denmark sometimes asks for the impossible, Thailand don't.

5 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

What do you mean?  Europeans applying for residency in Thailand are granted it if they meet Thailand's requirements aren't they?  I disagree with Denmark's decision but all they are asking is that immigrants meet their requirements.  Just as Thailand does.

It was sarcasm, I meant the Thais don't budge an inch on their rules so why should the Danes.

1 minute ago, 2long said:

31 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

You obviously agreed to leave, this boy's parents are fighting the decision and, if he is forced to leave, that will be deportation.

Well, they're not his parents, but my point is only that the headline suggests deportation which I read as 'kept in custody until taken to the airport, asap.' Whereas it appears he has just had his application denied. To ME, this is not being deported until/unless the deadline has passed and the poor lad is in custody await his plane.

One is, she adopted him, that makes her a parent and her husband, in the circumstances, can reasonably be referred to as a parent, i.e. stepfather.

 

"the headline suggests deportation which I read as 'kept in custody until taken to the airport, asap".

Your "reading" of it like that was wrong, then.   

   Denmark has decided to deport him but his family and lawyer is fighting it.

34 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

The thing is, it's not the Thai authorities who are arguing against Denmark's decision.

No, it's one of their own nationals who is biased in his thinking because he is married to the boys Aunt.

 

So now, he expects his case to be treated differently when Denmark has already explained their position and their reasons why they have refused the boy.

 

Cases are now coming up in the UK with these Afghan interpreters who have brought over their families, they are now wanting to bring their ' extended families ' over to the UK.

 

Where does it end? It ends when a government has the backbone to say No!

 

 

 

 

8 minutes ago, khunPer said:

The are a number of Danes living with their family in Thailand due to this, simply because it either too difficult to get the family to Denmark, or simply impossible.

Very surprising, when your neighbours make it quite easy.. I mean Sweden.

4 minutes ago, khunPer said:

9 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

I disagree with Denmark's decision but all they are asking is that immigrants meet their requirements.  Just as Thailand does.

Not really, Denmark sometimes asks for the impossible, Thailand don't.

How can you disagree with my saying that immigrants to Denmark have to meet the country's immigration requirement?   They're not "impossible", as evidenced by the boy's mother being allowed to stay, i.e. she met the requirements.

3 minutes ago, Scouse123 said:

No, it's one of their own nationals who is biased in his thinking because he is married to the boys Aunt.

 

So now, he expects his case to be treated differently when Denmark has already explained their position and their reasons why they have refused the boy.

"...it's one of their own nationals who is biased in his thinking because he is married to the boys Aunt".

He is married to the boy's mother, she adopted him.